previously

English

Etymology

From previous +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːvi.əsli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹivi.əsli/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

previously (not comparable)

1. (now archaic, with present-tense constructions) First; beforehand, in advance.
   • 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:

     I must, however, previously remark, that the power of generalizing ideas, to any great extent, is not very common amongst men or women.

2. (with past-tense constructions) At an earlier time; already.

   The discovery of a previously unknown species had taken place nearly two years previously.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 239:

     Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist, declares that to urinate in a spot where a dog has previously done so results in loss of virility.

   • 2019 August 10, Julie Brown, Veronica Penney, Daniel Chang, Sarah Blaskey, “Jeffrey Epstein is gone, but allegations against powerful associates linger”, in Tampa Bay Times‎:

     In the lawsuit, Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with a “large amount of people,” some of whom had not previously been named including New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson […].

3. (television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.

Derived terms

• as previously mentioned
• previously disadvantaged

Translations

at an earlier time

Arabic: قَبْلًا (qablan), قَبْل (ar) (qabl) Aramaic: הידין Armenian: նախապես (hy) (naxapes), նախօրոք (hy) (naxōrokʻ), նախորդիվ (naxordiv) Bulgarian: преди (bg) (predi), някога (bg) (njakoga) Catalan: anteriorment (ca), prèviament (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 以前 (ji5 cin4), 舊時 / 旧时 (gau6 si4) Mandarin: 以前 (zh) (yǐqián), 先前 (zh) (xiānqián) Corsican: anteriormente Czech: dříve (cs), předtím (cs) Danish: før (da) Dutch: tevoren (nl), vroeger (nl) Esperanto: antaŭe Finnish: aikaisemmin (fi), aiemmin (fi) French: autrefois (fr), auparavant (fr), antérieurement (fr), précédemment (fr) Galician: previamente Georgian: ადრე (adre), წინათ (c̣inat) German: zuvor (de), vorher (de), früher (de), ehemals (de) Greek: προηγουμένως (el) (proïgouménos) Hindi: पहले (hi) (pahle) Hungarian: azelőtt (hu), az előzőekben, korábban (hu) Icelandic: áður (is) Indonesian: dulu (id) Irish: roimh ré Italian: precedentemente (it), anteriormente (it), in antecedenza, antecedentemente (it), in precedenza (it) Japanese: 予め (ja) (あらかじめ, arakajime), 以前 (ja) (いぜん, izen), 予て (ja) (かねて, kanete), 先に (ja) (さきに, saki-ni) Korean: 앞서 (ko) (apseo) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لەمەوبەر (lemewber) Latin: prius (la), anteā (la) Low German: fördem, fördęm Maltese: dari Old English: furþum Persian: قبلا (fa) (qablan) Polish: poprzednio (pl) Portuguese: antes (pt), anteriormente (pt) Russian: пре́жде (ru) (préžde), ра́нее (ru) (ráneje), ра́ньше (ru) (ránʹše) Sanskrit: प्रथमम् (sa) (prathamám) Scottish Gaelic: ro làimh Serbo-Croatian: prethodno (sh), претходно Spanish: anteriormente (es), previamente (es), con anterioridad Swedish: förut (sv), tidigare (sv) Urdu: پہلے (pahle) Uzbek: avval (uz) Welsh: o'r blaen, yn flaenorol

recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series

Hungarian: az előző részek tartalmából (literally “from the content of the preceding parts”)

See also

• before
• previous
• prior
• yesteryear

Anagrams

• perviously, viperously